Casanova Brown - 1944 - Gary Cooper - Video

The Story ...

Arriving in a small town of Rossmore, Illinois by train, college professor Casanova Brown is met by his socialite girlfriend Madge Ferris and tells her not to bring up his trip to New York, where he was trying, unsuccessfully, to publish a book about the notorious 18th-century womanizer, Casanova.

Cas decides to ask Madge to marry him, even though her father J.J. warns him against it, saying Madge is nothing but trouble.

Just before the wedding, Cas leaves town because of a letter from a Dr Martha Zernecke summoning him to a Chicago maternity hospital but promises to be back in time for the wedding.

About the letter and what he believes is behind it, Cas tells J.J. of his New York experience with Isabel Drury, of how they fell in love and decided to wed, only to have Cas repeatedly upset Isabel's mother by insulting her belief in astrology, ignoring her warnings that their union would be cursed, then inadvertently burning down the Drurys' house with a smouldering cigarette, he having hid the cigarette in discovering Mrs Drury's anti-smoking stance. The Drurys had the marriage annulled, but Cas suspects Isabel may have now had his baby.

At the hospital, Cas goes through a battery of tests unaware of what they are for. After he is told by a nurse that the tests confirm he is a specimen of good health, he meets Dr. Zernecke who tells him about Isabel having had a baby girl, his baby girl, and that the tests were for their records in Isabel putting the baby up for adoption. In Cas reuniting with Isabel who is still at the hospital, she confirms the baby is biologically his and that she is putting it up for adoption.

Cas disguises himself as a doctor and kidnaps the baby not wanting Isabel to give their baby away. He hides out at a local hotel, in the process missing his wedding to Madge, and employs two of the hotel staff, Monica Case, a chambermaid, and Frank, the bell captain, to help him take care of the baby, they collectively who employ extreme care for the baby.

Figuring he can keep the baby if he is married, he proposes to "plain Jane" Monica, who accepts. With the baby in tow, Cas and Monica head to City Hall.

Isabel confesses to Dr Zernecke that the adoption was just a ploy to bring Cas to the hospital and discover how he really felt about her and the baby in wanting him back in her life.

With Cas, Monica and Frank using whatever means to learn about proper baby care which included Frank unwittingly contacting the hospital, Dr. Zernecke and Isabel have been aware of Cas' location all along and knew the baby was safe.

Isabel, Mr Drury, J.J. and Madge descend upon the hotel concurrently to find Cas. Ultimately, Cas, Isabel and the baby are able to be alone with each other, and upon the fact that Cas and Monica are not married coming to light in they having to wait three days as is law in Chicago, Cas and Isabel decide to reconcile now as a family with their baby.

Credits :

Directed by : Sam Wood
Written by : Nunnally Johnson
Based on : Little Accident by Floyd Dell and Thomas Mitchell
Produced by : Nunnally Johnson
Cinematography : John F. Seitz
Edited by : Thomas Neff
Music by :Arthur Lange
Production Companies : International Pictures / Christie Corporation / Nunnally Johnson Productions
Distributed by : RKO Radio Pictures
Release Dates : August 5, 1944

Genre : #comedy - #love #romance

Cast :

Gary Cooper as Casanova Brown
Teresa Wright as Isabel Drury
Frank Morgan as J.J. Ferris
Anita Louise as Madge Ferris
Edmund Breon as Mr. Drury (as Edmond Breon)
Patricia Collinge as Mrs. Drury
Jill Esmond as Dr. Zernecke
Mary Treen as Monica Case, the Maid
Emory Parnell as Frank, the Bell Captain
Isobel Elsom as Mrs. Ferris
Halliwell Hobbes as Charles, the Butler
Charles Cane as Hicks
Larry Olsen as Junior (as Larry Joe Olsen)
Irving Bacon as Hotel manager
Dorothy Tree as Nurse Clark[2]
Ann Evers as Nurse Petherbridge
Grace Cunard as Relative at baby window

Film Information Source :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casanova_Brown

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